“The King’s Speech” helmer Tom Hooper, up for best director, was already in celebratory mood because his movie, nommed for best film, has taken more at the U.K. box office in nine days than his film, “The Queen” took in its entire run. ” ‘The King’ is beating ‘The Queen,’ ” he laughed.

Harvey Weinstein is torn between his two films in contention at the Globes — “The King’s Speech” and “Blue Valentine” whose stars Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling are nommed for best actress and actor respectively. “All your children are beautiful — you can’t choose between them,” he said.

Andrew Garfield, supporting actor nominee for “The Social Network,” took time off from the “Spider-Man” reboot to, well, socialize. He was there with pal Eddie Redmayne (“Pillars of the Earth”).

“It’s nice being in a room with such inspiring, wonderful people to talk to,” he said, citing director Luca Guadagnino whose “I Am Love” is a foreign film nominee. Then he laughingly admitted he was “being led (between events) as if I was a blind person trusting that the person leading me doesn’t want me dead!”

Aaron Eckhart (“Rabbit Hole”) was chilled about the awards, saying, “Globes, what Globes?”